All Chapters of The Single Mom's Second Chance: Chapter 1 - Chapter 6

1 / 13 Where do we go from here? Chapter oneThere I was, twenty-nine years old, three beautiful children and divorced. Who would want me now?I had always dreamt of being a mum and a wife, one of those 1940’s wives you would see in the movies. I loved my family life, looking after my three babies, helping them with homework, cooking and cleaning while the children were at school and having a nice hot meal ready on the table for when my husband got home. Everything seemed perfect, that was until I stumbled across emails, I clearly was not meant to find….’Work is so fun with you Dylan; I can’t believe you threw water on my top and made it go see-through’.’I liked what I saw, and I really like you Stacey, we should meet up more often’.‘What about your wife?’‘I’ll tell her I’m going to see my friends; you make me feel so different, I want to be with you’.There it was in black and white, and my world came tum

“Come on we’re going shopping” Liana says grabbing my hands and pulling me up off the sofa. I had agreed to let Dylan have the children every other weekend after months of him asking. Harry was six months old now, so he was taking bottles which meant I had some freedom back, not that I wanted it, and this was the first weekend I had ever been away from any of my children.“Get up and get dressed” Liana said with exasperation in her voice. I know she was trying to take my mind off my babies, but I felt so lost without them. “Ok, Ok I’m coming”, I go upstairs to my room and pull on a pair of skinny jeans and an over-sized t-shirt. Liana was looking lush as usual with her long blonde hair pulled back into a ponytail, black jeans that fitted her perfectly and a rainbow t-shirt, she managed to get her figure back so quickly after having Luna and I still feel so frumpy. I suppose new clothes will help. *We got into town and were looking thr

The next day I’m sat across from a police officer at my dining table, re living the events of last night. This is not how I had planned to spend my first day home alone.Penelope is sat next to me with her head on my lap, her big brown eyes looking up so lovingly at me. As I stroke her head, I tell the officer what happened,“Has anything like this happened before?” he asks, he makes me re live my entire relationship with Dylan right from the start and as I reach the end I suddenly realise I have been in such a toxic relationship the entire time, right back to when we first got together and he’d made me change the way I look. I didn’t see it at the time as he had done it subtly. He told me he didn’t like my leather jacket, Doc Marten boots, bright red hair and punk friends. I was so desperate for him to like me I did everything he asked. I wasn’t allowed to listen to my favourite music because he didn’t like it. When he bought me clothes, they were the complete opposite of what I woul